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Meaconing

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Successful meaconing can cause aircraft to be lured into "hot" (ambush-ready) landing zones or enemy airspace, ships to be diverted from their intended routes, bombers to expend ordnance on false targets, or ground stations to receive inaccurate bearings or position locations.
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signals. These signals are rebroadcast on the received frequency, typically with power higher than the original signal, to confuse enemy navigation. Consequently, aircraft or ground stations are given inaccurate bearings.
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are often used to transmit navigation signals. Since communications personnel operate the transmitters, they must know how to deal with any communications problems resulting from meaconing.
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drone, causing it to crash land. Meaconing in this case could provide a drone with false altitude measurements, causing a crash landing.
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beacon altitude to below ground level, causing planes' altimeters to provide false readings, thus causing landing planes to crash.
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Meaconing is more of a concern to personnel in navigation ratings than to radio operators. However, communications
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says it used this technique (among others) to capture a
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verification
improve this article
adding citations to reliable sources
"Meaconing"
news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
Learn how and when to remove this message
interception
navigation
transmitters
portmanteau
Iran
USAF
RQ-170 Sentinel
Tomorrow Never Dies
GPS signal
Royal Navy
frigate
John J. Nance
Pandora's Clock
Die Hard 2
Dulles Airport
ATC
Black (video game)
Radio jamming
Interference (communication)

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